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Quiz
- Complete this well-known sentence: "As American as..."?
- Can you name John Wayne's final film?
- Thanksgiving is celebrated in which month?
- What was in operation for only 18 months. This period was between April 1860 and October 1861?
- The South is sometimes informally called what, due to its socially conservative evangelical Protestantism?
- What is Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, most famous for?
- If a freshman is a first-year student at an American university, what word describes a student in their second year?
- In the United States of America what is the most spoken language after English?
- Eight U.S. presidents were born in which American state?
- Disneyland in California first opened its doors to the public in which decade?
- Which car’s logo is a horse galloping from right to left?
- Whose 1970 and 1971 Christmas specials, filmed in Vietnam at the height of the war, were seen by more than 60 percent of U.S. households?
- Who used the term "magnificent desolation" to describe the Moon?
- Which Hollywood star was president of the National Rifle Association of America, from 1998 to 2003?
- On April 3, 1882, who was shot in the back of the head while dusting a picture by Robert Ford?
- Which 5 letter word describes an annual event which serves as the NFL's most common source of player recruitment?
- Which song recorded in 1949 by Brother Bones and His Shadows was later adopted as the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters?
- What is the largest mammal in all of North America?
- What is the legal drinking age in the U.S.?
- "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" was the title of the final episode of which American television series?
- Complete the lyric: "The answer, my friend, is ..."?
- Which American modernist artist is known for her paintings of New York skyscrapers, New Mexico landscapes, and enlarged flowers?
- What name represents the female national personification of the United States?
- What "action figure" toy was named after the World War II nickname for regular soldiers?
- Terry Gene Bollea is better known by his ring name. What is it?
- The day after Thanksgiving in the United States is famously known as what?
- Monticello was the home of which former president?
- The World Series is the annual championship in which sport?
- Name the only US state to have one syllable in its name?
- The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of which mountain range?
- What was founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts?
- Which U.S. department store chain is famous for its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City?
- A residential treatment center for people with substance dependence was co-founded by which American First Lady in Rancho Mirage, California?
- Which American sitcom that originally aired from 1951 to 1957 became the most-watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons?
- The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the burial site of President John F. Kennedy are both in which cemetery?
- Harriet Tubman was known as a "conductor" of which railroad?
Answers
- Apple pie
- The Shootist (1976)
- November
- The Pony Express
- The Bible Belt
- Woodstock music festival (1969)
- Sophomore
- Spanish
- Virginia
- 1950s (1955)
- Mustang
- Bob Hope
- Buzz Aldrin ('Magnificent Desolation' is also the title of an autobiography by Buzz Aldrin)
- Charlton Heston
- Jesse James
- Draft
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Bison
- 21
- M*A*S*H
- ... blowin' in the wind
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Columbia
- G.I. Joe
- Hulk Hogan
- Black Friday
- Thomas Jefferson (from 1770 until his death in 1826)
- Baseball
- Maine
- The Appalachian range
- Harvard University
- Macy's
- I Love Lucy
- Betty Ford
- Arlington Cemetery
- The Underground Railroad